Transfiguration of Mies's Country House in Brick
Solo exhibition, Smith Gallery, Fay Jones School of Architecture2014
Many of Mies’s early houses, as spatial and conceptual constructs, denote a figuration of absence, yet negative figuration is absent in the Brick Country House. After 1923, he never returned to the brick bearing wall as a structural system that also defined space fluidly. This abandonment of the positive figure as an operative spatial device, and his omission of this project from the G exhibitions, constitutes the Brick Country House as the first ruin of modern architecture. This project takes up that ruin and transforms its figural inversions.
